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This concept video is pop-ups are steep. So I know many golfers occasionally

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struggle with hitting the sky ball, you know, right off the top of the club. So

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I'm

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going to break that down for you so that you can see exactly what's happening

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and

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now once and for all what's causing it. If you are hitting a pop-up then you

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are

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steep and there's really only two ways that you're going to get steep enough to

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hit this pop-up because you'll see if the club is behind the golf ball, if I

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have

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the grip back here then if you look from the face-on view you would see that I

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'd

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make contact even if I hit the ground I would hit contact in the middle of the

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club or maybe high on the club but definitely not on the crown. The only way

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that I'm going to hit and make contact on the crown is if I have the grip

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significantly leaning forward. So many golfers struggle with the pop-up in

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trying to stay on top of the ball, not have enough access to it or not let

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their upper body kind of fall away. They get that upper body leaning on top and

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they'll even take little steep divots and they'll hit it right off the crown

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and

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pop it up. The other option, the other common way that golfers get steep down

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to

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the bottom is more with the release. The lunge of the upper body having the

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upper body on top I would say is 90% of the pop-ups that I see. So very much

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getting that upper body on top will have the club coming down and if you don't

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have the ball teed up really low you're going to tend to pop it up so you'll

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see

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I can do that one again if I'm lunging kind of on top of it and I extend my

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arms, hit that one up near the top of the club not quite on the crown. I've got

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to

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hit the ground in order to do that. So the other one would be the more of the

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release pop-up which would come from down the line getting the club more kind

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of outside through there. So getting the club outside with more of the internal

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rotation release will tend to get the ball to hit the top of the club just like

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I did there. We're coming from that steep path or steepening really late. So if

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you're hitting a pop-up I almost guarantee that it's one of those two

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different patterns and so what I usually go at first is trying to do 9 to 3

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shots where you're getting enough tilt behind the ball making sure that you

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don't hit it fat because a lot of golfers lunge forward because their arms go

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too early instead of extending through the ball out in front of it. They

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extend down at it but if you're back behind it then you'll be able to hit

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through the middle of the club kind of a piercing higher launch but flatter

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flight trajectory shot. Doing that a few kind of 9 to 3s and then what you'll

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have to do is work through some of the bracing drills to get used to staying

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behind as those arms extend. That's usually a common barrier to work through

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for any golfer who struggles with pop-ups is the feeling of being powerful or

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hitting the ball hard while staying back. Some golfers only feel power when

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they're

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really lunging forward as opposed to being able to stay back and have a good

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solid release and get more speed in the club head as opposed to a lot of force.

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So if it's more the release style where it's coming this way then doing a gate

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drill or putting something on the outside or working on your motorcycle and

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your

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ulnar deviation so that you can unhinge and supinate while staying behind that

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will help shallow things out give you more center face contact as opposed to

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hitting it off the crown from getting too steep. Two ways you get steep are

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either lunging forward or more of that internal rotation style release.